Gaaaaaah - it’s raining. Again! Heavily!!!
Sigh....oh well. Such is life and into every life a little rain must fall and it falleth on the just and the unjust alike and similar duck-billed platitudes…
I wanted a little variation on the garter stitch so I incorporated a slipped stitch into the overall pattern. A very small difference to be sure but it makes a beautiful fabric and creates a very different looking texture than plain garter stitch.
Simple Simon Baby Blanket
Slipped stitch edge and garter stitch border
Cast on 3 stitches.
Row 1: (and all right side rows) Sl 1 purlwise wyif, knit to end of row
Row 2: Sl 1*, (k, yo, k) all into next stitch, k1 (5 stitches)
Row 4: Sl 1, (k1, yo) twice, k2 (7 stitches)
Row 6: Sl 1, k1, yo, k3, yo, k2 (9 stitches)
Row 8: Sl 1, k1, yo, k5, yo, k2 (11 stitches)
Row 10: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, yo, k2 (13 stitches)
Row 12: Sl 1, k1, yo, k9, yo, k2 (15 stitches)
Row 14: Sl 1, k1, yo, k11, yo, k2 (17 stitches)
Row 16: Sl 1, k1, yo, k13, yo, k2 (19 stitches)
Slip stitch blanket pattern
Row 18: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, sl 1, k7, yo, k2 (21 stitches)
Row 20: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, sl 1, k1, sl 1, k7, yo, k2 (23 stitches)
Row 22: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, (sl 1, k1) twice, sl 1, k7, yo, k2 (25 stitches)
Row 24: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, (sl 1, k1) three times, sl 1, k7, yo, k2 (27 stitches)
Row 26: Sl 1, k1, yo, k7, (sl 1, k1) four times, sl 1, k7, yo, k2 (29 stitches)
Continue in this fashion, increasing two stitches on every wrong-side row.
When the blanket is as wide as you’d like it to be you can begin decreases on both sides of the blanket as follows, taking Row 26 above as our example (and having worked Row 27 - sl 1, knit to end). The next row (the first decrease row) would look like this:
Sl 1, k1, yo, (k2tog) twice, k5, (sl 1, k1) three times, sl 1, K5, (k2tog) twice, yo, k2 (27 stitches)
You would continue this way, decreasing 2 stitches on every wrong-side row and working one fewer repeat of the (sl 1, k1) in the center of the blanket.
I haven’t decided yet whether I want to do an edging on this blanket but it would lend itself well to that treatment if you so desired - either knit or crochet :)
I have frogged the turquoise sock as being too tight. I will either learn to figure gauge properly or I’ll stop knitting socks - yeah, like that’s going to happen :) I will find a pattern eventually that I like and that doesn’t drive me crazy. As Myria says, more like a putt than a drive…
I am also playing with another project which I won’t detail just yet - any more than to say that I was working on the very same pattern around this time last year :)
Stay dry friends - Rain hats and rubber boot all around!
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You know, you could send some of that rain my way. I’m mighty sick of 80-90 degree days with shiny sun…
Sorry, but I’m crossing my fingers that it rains when we visit. It would be so wonderful to see water fall from the sky it would actually *improve* our vacation!
Colleen - You cannot imagine how much I would love a chance to get sick of the sun :) Of course 80-90ºF temperatures make me a little sluggish but I consider it a reasonable trade-off!
Bron - Given the way things have gone so far this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were having monsoons! You and I would have to hole up in a restaurant for the day - goodness - wouldn’t that be awful! Heheh…
Thank you so much for sharing the pattern for the Baby Blanket - if now hopefully one (or more) of my friends would get pregnant, I’d be knitting it up immediately!
Dipsy - I’m very glad you think it might be useful to you!
I love that pattern for a baby blanket. It just happens I have some Encore colorspun in baby colors (lilac/white/peach) that I had been trying to decide what blanket pattern to use. Thanks for making it easier!
Bliss - How fortuitous :) I haven’t worked much with Encore before and I like it - good, soft, washable stuff. Not too common around here though...I lucked into this batch.
I love Encore for baby blankets.
Thanks for the blanket pattern. I am going to try it to make a blanket for Rebekah‘s “Basil and Abner’s Critter Charity Drive”.
Christine - That’s a nice thought, making blankets for homeless animals! Good for you :)
